Audit Staff Essentials - Experienced Staff or New In Charge + CPExpress

Mastering complex auditing topics

Familiarity with best practices for increasingly advanced audit topics can help distinguish you as a well-rounded audit professional.

Designed to help you master complex audit topics, Audit Staff Essentials - Experienced Staff or New In Charge explores a range of topics, including:

• Engagement Management and Supervision
• Research Tools
• Risk Assessment
• Further Audit Procedures
• Working Paper Review
• Understanding the Concept of Sampling
• Understanding the Concept of Sampling - Substantive Sampling
• Auditing Contingent Liabilities and Going Concern
• Auditing Investments
• Auditing Intangible Assets and Goodwill

About Audit Staff Essentials − Your audit learning journey

From start to finish, Audit Staff Essentials (ASE) provides the training roadmap and support you need along your career journey.

Designed to help you master your current position and excel in each phase of your career, this self-study series offers four levels that cover hands-on technical skills, conceptual expertise, and soft skill training.

Updated regularly

Regularly refreshed, this series is perfect for individual staff members or as a comprehensive group training program for firms.

Scaffolded learning

Get ready to position yourself or your staff members to become successful auditors and essential firm members.

Levels include:

• Level 1 – New Staff: Core Concepts
• Level 2 - New Staff: Practical Application
• Level 3 – Experienced Staff/New In-Charge
• Level 4 – Experienced In-Charge/Senior

Who Will Benefit

• Experienced staff
• New in-charge auditors
• Firms that want consistent training and level setting

Key Topics

• Auditor responsibilities
• Risk assessment
• Engagement management and supervision
• Working paper review
• Key concepts of sampling
• Auditing investments, contingent liabilities, going concern, intangible assets, and goodwill
• Research tools

Learning Outcomes

• Identify the core responsibilities of the in charge auditor, including materiality, risk assessment, and audit strategy.
• Select appropriate methods to test controls, gather evidence of effectiveness, assess deficiencies, and communicate findings.
• Determine proper substantive procedures to be performed, including substantive analytical procedures, and substantive tests of details.

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• Complete a series of courses back-to-back, or start a course and resume it later

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